May Book Report

May 2023, Concord, NH

I finished 8 books last month.

A quote from this month's reading:

“Fundamentalist movements in all faiths share certain characteristics. They reveal a deep disappointment and disenchantment with the modern experiment, which has not fulfilled all that it promised. They also express real fear. Every single fundamentalist movement that I have studied is convinced that the secular establishment is determined to wipe religion out. This is not always a paranoid reaction." --Karen Armstrong, Islam

Here is my progress toward various goals and challenges:

• 1 was a book I own but hadn't read before (inspired by The Unread Shelf project)
• 1 counted toward the 16th Canadian Reading Challenge 
• 1 was from my Classics Club List 
• 1 counted toward the TBR Pile Challenge
• none counted toward the 2023 Historical Fiction Reading Challenge 
• none counted toward the 2023 What's in a Name Challenge
• none were from my Readers' Advisory Reading List 
• 2 were from mystery series I am trying to make progress on this year

 Here are the books I finished in May 2023: 

1. Islam by Karen Armstrong (4-stars)
2. The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz (4-stars)
3. Murder by Milk Bottle by Lynne Truss (4-stars)
4. A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (3-stars)
5. Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects by Johanna Rothman (4-stars)
6. You Might as Well Die by J. J. Murphy (4-stars)
7. Dear Little Corpses by Nicola Upson (audiobook, 4-stars)
8. The 12-Week Year by Brian P. Moran (4-stars)

June 1st is the official start-day for #20BooksofSummer23 so look for an update on my progress toward that challenge in next month's book report.